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Honors Constitutional Government Analyzing Federalism and the U.S. Supreme Court Your Name Noah Steele 1. Choose one U.S. Supreme Court case from the list in the lesson. Your Case Texas v. New Mexico and Colorado 2. Find at least three credible sources on your chosen case. Be sure to save the author, title, publisher, date, and URL address of each source. You will cite them in MLA style at the end of your essay. Citation Format: Author last name, First name. “Title of Article.” Website name, Day Month Year, URL address. Citations for your Essay: Source #1 "Texas v. New Mexico and Colorado." Oyez, www.oyez.org/cases/2017/141-orig. Accessed 5 Mar. 2024. Source #2 “Home - the National Judicial College | NJC.”  The National Judicial College , www.judges.org. Source #3 Dwyer, Mary Pat. “Texas v. New Mexico and Colorado.” SCOTUSblog , www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/texas-v-new-mexico-and-colorado/. Accessed 5 Mar. 2024. 3. Analyze the information in the sources. Read carefully; be sure to identify how the Supreme Court case relates to federalism. How is federalism reflected in your chosen case? 4. Compose your own well-written essay, including an introduction and a conclusion. In the body of the essay, answer the following questions in complete paragraphs: What law, policy, or government action was the Supreme Court evaluating, and why was it being challenged? Provide at least two facts from your sources to support your response. Unless Otherwise Noted All Content © 2023 Florida Virtual School. FlexPoint Education Cloud™ is a trademark of Florida Virtual School.
What was the Court's opinion, and what source(s) did the justices use to justify their answer (previous laws, precedent, the Constitution)? Provide at least two pieces of evidence from your sources to support your response. How does the case relate to and affect U.S. federalism? Provide at least two pieces of evidence from your sources to support your claim. A historic case concerning disagreements over water rights in the Southwest of the United States is Texas v. New Mexico and Colorado. This lawsuit concerns the distribution and use of water from the Rio Grande, a large river system that crosses several states, including Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. The main cause of the dispute is the region's urban, industrial, and agricultural users' conflicting demands for water resources. The conflict's beginnings can be found in the interstate compacts that were created to control water use along the Rio Grande in the early 1900s. Disputes and strains continued how these accords should be interpreted and put into practice, resulting in legal conflicts between the states concerned. In the case, the Supreme Court was evaluating the allocation and management of water resources along the Rio Grande River, specifically concerning interstate compacts governing water usage. The primary legal discussion being challenged in this case was the Rio Grande Compact. The Supreme Court was tasked with resolving the dispute and determining whether New Mexico and Colorado violated the Rio Grande Compact. The case involved complex legal arguments regarding water rights, interstate agreements, and the interpretation of compact provisions. These facts both came from www.oyez.org under their “Facts about the case” headline. Texas claims that New Mexico and Colorado have been taking vast amounts of water from the Rio Grande, depriving Texas of its share. This is the specific focus of the case Texas v. New Mexico and Colorado. Texas contends that these acts go against the provisions of the interstate agreement and violate its water rights, which are valued to the state's ability to support industry, agricultural, and urban population growth. So, in return Texas filed the current Supreme Court case in 2013, claiming that New Mexico had broken the Compact by permitting water users to divert water from the river downstream of the reservoir, thus decreasing the amount of water flowing into Texas. 2014 saw US intervention. Because "the Compact does not confer on the United States the power to enforce its terms," the Special Master suggested that the Court reject a portion of the U.S. claims. The US exception stating its right to pursue claims for violations of the Compact itself, as well as Colorado's exception objecting to US claims (except from those about the 1906 compact), was accepted for hearing by the Court. This piece of information came from https://www.judges.org/ being discussed in the second paragraph. As for the period the ruling and decisions were being made https://www.scotusblog.com gave me a timeline of the whole case. The distribution of water resources and the distribution of authority between the federal and state governments are two major issues that the Texas v. New Mexico and Colorado cases raise for American federalism. Fundamentally, the conflict centers on interstate compacts— constitutional agreements that permit two or more states to manage common resources like water—approved by Congress. These agreements provide states with a cooperative means of resolving shared issues and conflicts without direct federal involvement. My ending body Unless Otherwise Noted All Content © 2023 Florida Virtual School. FlexPoint Education Cloud™ is a trademark of Florida Virtual School.
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